Refrigerating apparatus



July 14, 1931; G F. HOFFERBERTH 1,313,999

REFRIGERATING APPARATUS Filed April 24, 1930 24 \L 4, I I

. 1 3 Z {IVZVENTOIR 36 My; H3 2 W ATTORNEY Patented July 14, 1931 UNITED ST ES GEORGE F. HOFFERBERTH, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR 'I'O FRIGIDAIRE CORPORATION,

PATENT o ncE OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF REFRIGER TING APPARATUS Application filed A i-n 24,

This invention relates to a mechanical refrigerator and more particularly to the arrangement of a drip container within said refrigerator.

- Li a An object of this invention is to provide improved means for positioning a drip container within a mechanical refrigerator.

Further objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the to following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein a preferred form of the present invention is clearly shown. In the drawings: Fig. 1 is an elevation View of a refrigerator embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a View in cross section of a portion of the refrigerator and taken in the direction of the arrows 2-2 of Fig. l with the strip container removed; Fig. 3 is a top view of a drip container forming a part of the present invention, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged view in cross section of a portion of the drip container and showing a portion of the means employed for positioning the-container in the refrigerator. I Referring to the drawings, the numeral 20 designates generally arefrig-erator which includes a cooling device such as evaporator 22; which may be of the coil-type, as shown in Fig. 1. The refrigerator may be provided with shelves 24 for supporting articles to be refrigerated. On one of these shelvesdirectly under the cooling device may be provided means 28 for guiding and positioning a drip container 30 which is supported by said shelf. The drip container may comprise a pan having a slideway 32 which may, for instance, be formed by a groove preferably upwardly directed in the bottom of the pan. This slideway cooperates with the means 28 for guiding and locating the container 30 'in its proper position under the cooling de' vice. The means 28 is secured to the shelf 24 by having its ends wrapped around the inner and outer Wires of said shelf, as at and 36. The means 28 may have an upward- 1y formed portion or guideway -40 which cooperates with the slideway 32 for guiding and locating the drip container. Thus it 1930. Serial No. 447,008.

will be notedthat the drip container may be removed when desired and easily returned to its proper position under said cooling' device.

While the form of embodiment of the in vention as herein disclosed constitutes a preferred form, it is to be understood that other forms might be adopted, all coming within the scopeof the claims which follow.

lVhat is claimed is as follows: 1. A mechanical refrigerator having a cooling device, a drip container having a slideway and adapted to be placed under said cooling device, a shelf forsupporting said container, and a member carried by said shelf forming a guideway which cooperates with said slideway for guiding and locating'said container.

2. A mechanical refrigerator having a cooling device, a drip container having a slideway formed in the bottom thereof and adapted to be placed under said cooling device, a shelf for supporting said container,

and a member carried by said shelf forming a guideway which cooperates with said slideway for guiding and locating said container.

3. A mechanical refrigerator having a cooling device, a drip container having a slidewa formed in the bottom thereof and adapte to be placed under said cooling device, a fiat shelf for supporting said contaiuer, and a member carried by said shelf forming a guideway which cooperates with said slideway for guiding and locating said GEORGE F. HOFFERBERTH. 

